Bruce Cronin

We’re on track for 4C well before this century is done. Sometimes, being heartbroken and outraged is the only rational response.

Let’s go back to 2010! We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….

Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time. By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top. An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence. Link to the paper in the first reply.

We are at the finding out phase.

#WolffBites: Desperate inequality: richest 10% now do half of total US consumer spending.  No wonder the other 90% are increasingly upset and angry.

China is doing exactly what any developing country should do: utilise industrialisation to build up capabilities in clean energy. China’s emissions are now *reversing* amidst rapid growth in energy demand. The reason: huge investments in clean energy.

I am shocked - shocked! - to discover the entire “exodus” story was nothing more than lobbying on behalf of the mega-rich. Wealth tax now!

Since Election Day, the 4 wealthiest men in the world (Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos) have become $248 billion richer and are now worth $1.211 trillion. The $7.25 federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 16 years. Yes. That’s what oligarchy looks like.

Thanks for everyone for coming to the launch of our book Deolonizing Economics, with @devikadutt @cacrisalves @SurbhiKesar! We had such a great time engaging with students, academics and the general public. And thanks to @MarxLibrary for hosting 🤗 hetecon.net/2025/07/03/dec…

The Greek depression was one of the worst in peacetime in the past decades.

World's largest living structure, Africa’s Great Green Wall, is taking shape >Biggest environment campaign anywhere >Planting 1b trees across 11 countries: 8,000 km long, 15 km wide >Restoring 100m hectares of degraded land >Locking away 250m tons of carbon >Creating 10m+ jobs

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all. Growth in energy and material use is occurring primarily in countries that do not need it and is not occurring fast enough (or is declining) in countries that do need it. The capitalist world economy is not delivering for human needs and ecology. A substantial redistribution of energy and material use is required—both within countries and between them.

Nice to finally have this in hand!

1/14 This article is a very good illustration of how, in a hyperglobalized world, countries that choose to control their domestic economies—which, among other things, means controlling their capital and trade accounts—can impose... reuters.com/business/finan…

🇮🇷 IRAN TODAY: Just watch this short walk through Teheran! -> Count the women that wear a head scarf and those who do not. Now tell me, is this what you expected? Iranian women can wear a headscarf if they choose to, but if they don’t … then they don’t. It’s a modern Muslim nation. 1/

How long are we going to tolerate this for? When will the world throw Netanyahu and his criminal gang in the dark cell in which they belong?

I would say this thesis is rapidly becoming conventional wisdom among many Chinese technologists and even some US technologists. It would be interesting to hear a serious debate between an advocate for this view and a typical neoliberal economist who defends financialization of the US economy.

Yet another reason why Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century deserves many revisits. Rarely cited as a discussion of tariffs, the book has an original angle on why and how American tariffs worked in the past; and would allow us to develop a unique (and unlike mainstream ones, 1/

Ingrid et al wrote a very nice commentary in EPW on AJR's nobel prize this week. In the end, this is what it is and one may agree or disagree but AJR projects economic development from the lens of what is acceptable in mainstream economics. x.com/ingridharvold/…